“Thanks to the support of our volunteers, the work should be finished by the middle of the month.

“Once it is completed, the trust will be organising a series of free activities, including tracking wildlife.”

The stairway through the woods starts at the main Wittenham Clumps car park.

Trust head of land management Chris Parker added: “Visitors can follow the path between the two hills and go into the wood.

“The route goes through an area known as the beech hangar, then down a steep slope and through beautiful coniferous woodland.”

The work has been funded through donations to the Earth Trust’s Stairway to Nature appeal and grants from the Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment, Towergate Insurance, Grundon Waste Management,
Awards for All, and Long Wittenham Parish Council.

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In 2010, the then Northmoor Trust struck a £6m deal to almost double the size of Oxfordshire’s most visited open space.

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